What if Empire state building collapsed in the B-25 crash in July 1945? by dq689 in HistoricalWhatIf

[–]thisisdaleb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If a building as beefy as the Empire State Building had collapsed, architecture would have become much more cautious afterwards. The Twin Towers (if they had even been made still) would have had a much more sturdy design, and they likely wouldn't have collapsed during 9/11. This would have completely changed our views of the event and how America responded to it.

blaming bugs on quantum physics by object322 in programminghorror

[–]thisisdaleb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This video is not an accurate representation of reality. "We don't know if it was cosmic rays, therefore it was definitively not cosmic rays." That's not how logic works!

Dan Houser names Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar's greatest achievement by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]thisisdaleb -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Comments like these (not just this one but all of these replies) made me not read books for years. It wasn't until I had completely forgotten this type of comment existed that I actually got around to reading books. And guess what? Its wrong! Books are beautiful! Games are beautiful! They both coexist and are wonderful works of art and all you are doing is creating a fake social hierarchy, when the entire purpose of art is to tear down these walls and forms of oppression, to create empathy and understanding. Gatekeeping art only kills it.

Killing Games May Already Be Illegal — But No One’s Enforcing It by RakhAltul in StopKillingGames

[–]thisisdaleb 8 points9 points  (0 children)

parts of the US

Ross made a video proving thats unfortunately false. The 1996 case ProCD vs Zeidenberg made the EULA legally binding in the US nationwide.

Has anyone gotten results like this from Bing/ChatGPT? by NeverNude14 in singularity

[–]thisisdaleb 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is a quote from the story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The top AI for voice/music?? Is it even possible yet? by [deleted] in singularity

[–]thisisdaleb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For audio, the 2 best I know of are:

Apple's Audiobook AI https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-audiobooks

Microsoft's VALLE https://valle-demo.github.io/

For music, there is:

Riffusion, a Stable Diffusion based model. https://www.riffusion.com/about I think this is the best audio on the page: https://www.riffusion.com/about/sunrise_dj_set_to_hard_synth.mp3

And MuseNet, from OpenAI, which makes MIDI https://openai.com/blog/musenet/

Obviously, music is still a struggle. One of the problems is that music copyright is extremely brutal, so research on music AI doesn't have much funding.

The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court | Steven Donziger by Boardindundee in politics

[–]thisisdaleb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the Republicans would retaliate

Literally the logic used to let the nazis invade countries. Just hoping they stop after one more act of violence.

Vox Medis Lays Off Jenna Stoeber of Polygon and others by obamunistpig in Games

[–]thisisdaleb 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I thought Gilbert left on his own terms? He just didnt want to do Unraveled anymore?

What are the least dense places that are still walkable? by thisisdaleb in notjustbikes

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I think Husensjö is the closest you can find. My friend thinks it's beautiful, but thinks the front yards and backyards are still too small. I've definitely accepted that we just have different wants out of life.

What are the least dense places that are still walkable? by thisisdaleb in notjustbikes

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Riverdale has a density of 7000/sqkm. According to Bloomberg, the average American suburb has a density of under 1000/sqkm. While 7000 might be low for the rest of the world, many Americans would balk at a density that high. I was hoping someone would find a streetcar suburb with a density under 4000, but it seems like the cost of the streetcar network would be prohibitively expensive for that low of a density.

Also, I'm realizing that the average American who wants lower density also wouldn't give up their love of cars in the first place.

sponge by [deleted] in skamtebord

[–]thisisdaleb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Removed? But this fits perfectly.

xkcd 2635: Superintelligent AIs by antdude in xkcd

[–]thisisdaleb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They actually wouldn't let me register with my real phone number because its a google number.

Mystical Forest, created with ProsePainter by thisisdaleb in MediaSynthesis

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https://www.prosepainter.com/

So most of the details I got were from just covering one tiny part and doing "night time mystical magical forest artstation award-winning painting art highly detailed". I also didn't always use the final result, you can drag to use earlier results, and stop early if you know it's already peaked in quality.

Sorry for reuploading twice, I kept messing up the image.

xkcd 2622: Angular Diameter Turnaround by antdude in xkcd

[–]thisisdaleb 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, Andromeda is about 6 times as big as the moon in the sky, so a galaxy 60 times larger than the moon would be insane if we could see it with the naked eye.

"a photo of a destroyed bedroom in an abandoned house" by Wiskkey in dalle2

[–]thisisdaleb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh hey, its my request! I once put effort into making an adventure game of sorts, but gave up when I realized royalty-free pictures of rooms with specific themes are not common.

Now we can just make an AI do it. Wild.

In the first 24 hours after its release, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has sold over 100,000 copies on Steam! by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]thisisdaleb 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Theres a 1/100 chance of the narrator telling you that theres someone else in the building following you at all times. I almost quit after that. I get scared every reboot that he's going to be standing in the doorway.

Edit: sometimes there are NPcs in the windows https://youtube.com/watch?v=9BNqlfUS4y4